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** Amusingly enough, the game [[HandWave acknowledges]] the misplaced elephant, claiming it just escaped from a zoo.
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* PaperKeyRetrievalTrick: In Hugo 2, the character you control encounter the locked door in a hallway but can't open it. It is opened in the finale, where Hugo puts the newspaper under the door and pushes the pencil through the keyhole to unlock the door, where you meet with a character in the hallway.
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There's also a film called {{Film/Hugo}} that has nothing to do with the games.

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** In the second game, the final bits of evidence are red herrings based on {{Cliche}}s. You instead have to locate the character without the cliché motive.



** In the second game, the final bits of evidence are red herrings based on {{Cliche}}s. You instead have to locate the character without the cliché motive.
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* OffWithHisHead - If the butler from the first game approaches you while you're wearing the monster mask, he'll give you a pork chop. Let him catch you without it on, and you'll get ''this'' kind of chop instead.
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** The killer dog is accompanied by a brief clip of "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?".
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong - The killer dog in the first game is accompanied by music that sounds like "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?".
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong - The killer dog in the first game is accompanied by music that sounds like "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?".
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** The opening theme music is a mishmash of both the "{{Dragnet}} March" and the synthesizer lick from Boz Scaggs' "Lido Shuffle."

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** The opening theme music is a mishmash of both the "{{Dragnet}} "''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' March" and the synthesizer lick from Boz Scaggs' "Lido Shuffle."
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* ShoutOut - The old man in the basement/cave asks you several questions relating to ''LordOfTheRings'', ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Thankfully if you never saw them, then [[ReadTheFreakingManual the help text will tell you the answers.]]

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* ShoutOut - The old man in the basement/cave asks you several questions relating to ''LordOfTheRings'', ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Thankfully if you never saw them, then [[ReadTheFreakingManual the help text will tell you the answers.]]
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** There's also a hilarious one by [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]] and his partner [[spoiler:(not gay)]] Gabriel.

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** There's also a hilarious one by [[ZeroPunctuation [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]] and his partner [[spoiler:(not gay)]] Gabriel.

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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Quite bizarrely, Hugo was the most popular character on Irish language children's television for many years under the name of Húidí, even releasing some charity singles. Not just a cartoon either, as an actual presenter via very rudimentary preset animations. Weirder still: the video games were an almost completely unknown commodity, and these days the broadcaster (originally named TnaG but since rebranded to TG4) seems to be pretending he never happened.



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*** It's not with Gabriel; it's with a chimp that's been trained to imitate speech. But it certainly ''sounds'' like Gabriel, doesn't it?

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* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The murder in the second game? That was actually Hugo's uncle and cousin rehearsing a play where they play the victim and killer, respectively.]]


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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:The murder in the second game? That was actually Hugo's uncle and cousin rehearsing a play where they play the victim and killer, respectively.]]
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* TheEndChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The murder in the second game? That was actually Hugo's uncle and cousin rehearsing a play where they play the victim and killer, respectively.]]

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* TheEndChangesEverything: TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The murder in the second game? That was actually Hugo's uncle and cousin rehearsing a play where they play the victim and killer, respectively.]]
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* TheEndChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The murder in the second game? That was actually Hugo's uncle and cousin rehearsing a play where they play the victim and killer, respectively.]]
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* FunetikAksent: The FrenchMaid in the second game
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* [[spoiler:HenpeckedHusband: Penelope certainly nags Hugo a lot.]]
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* AmateurDetective: Penelope

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* AmateurDetective: AmateurSleuth: Penelope
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* AmateurDetective: Penelope


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* AscendedExtra: Penelope in the Second Game.


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* BoundAndGagged: Penelope in the first game, though this is more of an InformedAttribute since we only ever see her shadow.


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* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist: Hugo in the second game.]]


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* DistressedDamsel: Penelope in the first and third games


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* HappilyMarried [[spoiler:Hugo and Penelope from the end of the first game, onward]].


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* TheUnseen: Penelope is only seen as a silhouette in the first game, but get's an actual sprite in the second game.
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** There's also a hilarious one by [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]] and his partner [[spoiler:(not gay)]] Gabriel.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Quite bizarrely, Hugo was the most popular character on Irish language children's television for many years under the name of Húidí, even releasing some charity singles. Not just a cartoon either, as an actual presenter via very rudimentary preset animations. Weirder still: the video games were an almost completely unknown commodity, and these days the broadcaster (originally named TnaG but since rebranded to TG4) seems to be pretending he never happened.

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* ShoutOut - The old man in the basement/cave asks you several questions relating to ''LordOfTheRings'', ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Thankfully if you never saw them, then [[ReadTheFreakingManual the help text will tell you the answers.]]
** In the sequel Hugo's girlfriend Penelope saves [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] from a Dalek.

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* ShoutOut - The old man in the basement/cave asks you several questions relating to ''LordOfTheRings'', ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Thankfully if you never saw them, then [[ReadTheFreakingManual the help text will tell you the answers.]]
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** The opening theme music is a mishmash of both the "{{Dragnet}} March" and the synthesizer lick from Boz Scaggs' "Lido Shuffle."
** In the sequel Hugo's girlfriend Penelope saves [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] from a Dalek.Dalek, confusing the hell out of a lot of stateside players who didn't get the BBC America channel (in fact, a few strategy guides treat it as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment).
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* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: In the second game, when describing a certain event.
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** In the second game, the final bits of evidence are red herrings based on {{Cliche}}s. You instead have to locate the character without the cliché motive.

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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Try throwing those matches across the bridge in the second game.

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Try throwing those matches across the bridge in the second game.



** Try typing [[spoiler: fuck]] in the first.

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** Try typing [[spoiler: fuck]] "fuck" in the first.
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** Or kissing the FrenchMaid.
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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Try throwing those matches across the bridge in the second game.
** Try typing [[spoiler: fuck]] in the first.
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A short adventure game from 1990. You play Hugo in a quest to rescue your girlfriend from a house inhabited by monsters. Followed up by two sequels, ''Whodunnit?'' and ''Jungle of Doom'', and the basic premise was retooled as a ''{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'' clone called ''{{Nitemare 3D}}'' in 1994.

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A short adventure game from 1990. You play Hugo in a quest to rescue your girlfriend from a house inhabited by monsters. Followed up by two sequels, ''Whodunnit?'' and ''Jungle of Doom'', and the basic premise was retooled as a ''{{Wolfenstein ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'' clone called ''{{Nitemare 3D}}'' in 1994.
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* MisplacedWildlife: In the third game, the South American jungle has elephants, hyenas, and suspiciously African-looking natives.

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